U+FF82 "ﾂ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Tu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﾂ
U+FF82 "ﾂ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Tu is a visually narrower, monospaced variant of the standard fullwidth katakana character ツ, which represents the syllable “tsu” in the Japanese writing system. Originally designed for use in legacy computer systems and terminal displays that used a fixed-width character grid, this halfwidth form occupies only one column of space instead of two, making it useful in environments where character width conservation is important, such as in certain text encodings or older electronic text formats. Despite its reduced width, it retains the same sound and usage as its fullwidth counterpart in Japanese text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF82 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Katakana Letter Tu |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ツ" U+30C4 Katakana Letter Tu |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﾂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﾂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBE 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF82 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF82 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff82 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Halfwidth |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ツ" U+30C4 Katakana Letter Tu |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ツ" U+30C4 Katakana Letter Tu |
| Script | Katakana |
| Script Extensions | Katakana |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Katakana |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |